Law & Order: Criminal Intent - First Season

- Get a crash cart, stat! - All right, I'm on it.

Code Blue on Ward 11-B, north block, bed 5!

- Any peripheral pulses? - No.

V-fib. She has a shockable rhythm.

- Start at 200 joules. - Charging to 200.

Clean

Alton on post on 11-B, north block.

Better catch your breath, or we'll need the crash cart for you.

I am so glad I was there when Mrs. Taylor coded.

Not as glad as she is, I bet.

She's going to be fine. Dr. Gardetta's going

to keep her sedated with Valium. Good work, Colleen.

- Looks like you're a hero. - No, I'm not.

Did you see in the papers?

They're having a book fair on Third Avenue this Saturday.

Yeah? Well, I'm, you know,

headed out to Sheepshead Bay, check on my folks.

I'll see you later.

Maintenance to cafeteria annex. Maintenance to cafeteria annex.

Will you come see our new goldfish, Grandma?

Of course, honey.

Ma, are you all right?

I heard they had an emergency.

Mrs. Taylor. She had a little thing with her heart.

Okay, kids, let's let Grandma go to sleep.

Goodbye, Grandma. We love you.

I don't know what I would've done if--

Stop staring.

How's your chest feel?

It's better. The doctor says my lung is healing fine.

I'm going to need some help at home when they let me out of here.

We'll get one of those home nurses.

- Medicare won't pay for that. - How do you know that?

You're always so negative.

Can't you come stay with me for a while?

Ma, I've fed your cat and watered your plants for two weeks already.

Time for your pills.

No, I just want to sleep.

It's all right, dear, you can take them when you wake up.

Oh, I brought the paperwork from Cutie Bear to sign.

You know, I think of you

in your apartment all by yourself.

Lenny's things everywhere.

And for the last time, leave that poor woman alone.

Code Blue on ward 11-B.

Code Blue on ward 11-B, north block, bed 5!

Mrs. Taylor, she's dead.

Do the families know?

No, and they haven't requested autopsies.

Did you advise them against autopsies?

I'm a risk management officer.

I always advise against autopsies.

What about the risk to other patients?

- We have an obligation. - Our obligation is unclear.

I've asked Ed to advise us on a course of action.

You need a lawyer to tell you what to do?

Matt, I understand your feelings.

We will deal with this situation ethically,

but we won't fall on our sword.

Hello? I'm calling from Bellmore General.

I want to report a--

I want to report three murders.

Your anonymous caller is grossly misinformed.

It's a statistical anomaly.

Along way from a murder.

- Did you do autopsies on these "anomalies"? - No.

Toxicology on blood or tissue samples?

If tests were done, the results are covered by patient confidentiality.

What makes these anomalies anomalous?

All 3 patients were on the surgery ward.

None had been admitted for life-threatening conditions.

You're saying they were misdiagnosed?

That's not what I said.

Okay, so they...

Developed life-threatening conditions

after they were admitted?

Either way, the hospital's on the hook.

Here are the names of the patients

we got off the 911 call.

We want the addresses of their families.

Then you can fax us the names of everybody here

who had anything to do with their treatment.

We'll expect it by this afternoon.

We know what a shock this must be for you.

I can't believe...

Anybody would want to hurt her.

We're not sure anybody did.

The only surgery your wife had was on her knee?

Yes. But then she got an infection

from the cortisone shots.

That's why she was still in the hospital.

Did anything unusual happen to her

before she passed away?

Well, just that afternoon her heart stopped.

She had what they call a Code Blue.

They resuscitated her.

She have a history of heart problems?

Just high blood pressure. It was under control.

It's almonds.

Cyanide?

I can tell you already how it's going to play out.

Angel of death.

Probably not a doctor, more likely a nurse or an orderly.

Single, late 20s to early 30s,

lives alone or with a parent.

Average to above average intelligence,

narcissistic, immature, likely to be a screw up on the job--

chronic lateness,

minor errors that would show up on a work record.

The hospital sent over a list of 114 people

who had one thing or another to do with the three victims.

Okay. I want to make sure Mrs. Taylor's not an isolated case.

You're gonna talk to your other families, you're going to get autopsies.

No problem.

And when you talk to the families,

try to curb your enthusiasm.

I'll curb it when we get this freak locked in a box.

Poor Lenny. Who would've imagined?

Pulmonary embolism at age 44.

That's according to that city doctor.

You don't believe him?

Lenny was a lot of things, but he was never sick.

What're you doing?

Just want to make sure it's not all frozen.

What did you want to do, plant tomatoes?

It's for when they put the headstone.

We haven't even ordered one yet.

We know where he is.

Trudy, he was your husband.

At least pretend you're sorry he's gone.

I am sorry.

Let's go before you catch cold.

My husband wasn't supposed to die.

He had his gall bladder removed.

He was a day away from being released.

- Did anything unusual happen to him? - No.

But the man in the bed next to him,

he had a Code Blue the day before Aaron died.

But him... they saved.

Excuse me.

Seems like a lot of Code Blues for a surgery ward.

When there's a Code Blue,

security has to go up and cover the nurses' station.

Except up on the surgery ward,

you're the only security that showed up every time.

Doesn't this seem strange to you?

There's not a lot of room to move around in here.

So any chance I get, I go out on the floors.

So when there's a Code Blue, you're "Johnny on the spot."

I guess so.

I heard some of these are worth a lot of money.

You collect them?

No. They're gifts.

From your wife, or your girlfriend?

No, I'm not married.

They're from a nurse.

- She likes you. - Yeah, she's not really my type.

Is she on the 11th floor?

How'd you know that?

Magic.

So what's this nurse's name?

Derrick's a nice man.

I'm sure he'd never hurt anybody.

He seems to pop up every time there's a Code Blue.

Is that your Mom's or your Dad's?

- My Dad's. - You live here alone with him?

Looks like he needs a lot of care.

Is that why you're always late for work?

I'm not always late.

I'll bet your Dad doesn't appreciate

all the effort that you put out.

But they appreciate you at the hospital.

- I don't know about that. - You save people's lives.

Like James McKee six weeks ago?

When his heart stopped, you called a Code.

I just happened to be there.

And Bruce Sonshein in the same week.

People look up to you.

People like Derrick Alton. It feels nice.

- Yes. - It makes up for the other looks you get...

When you're late or make a mistake.

What'd you give them, Colleen,

to make their heart stop?

Oh God.

I gave them adenosine.

- It's a heart medication. - For rapid heart rate.

But if you give it to someone with a normal heart rate?

Their heart stops, just for 20 or 30 seconds.

- It's not lethal. - But it's enough to call a Code Blue.

Okay, Colleen.

Now tell us what you did with Aaron Berkowitz,

George Malloy and Jenny Taylor.

- They were poisoned with cyanide. - I didn't do anything!

Saving people wasn't exciting enough for you.

No, I didn't kill those people.

All I did was give Mrs. Taylor adenosine

just to make her heart stop.

But I did not give her cyanide. I didn't.

You made her heart stop

the afternoon before she died?